The Bishop's Blog
Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor
Daily prayer: John the Baptist
Jun 24, 2025
Almighty God, by whose providence your servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of your Son our Savior by preaching repentance: Make us so to follow his teaching...
What would Nixon think of Trump?
Jun 23, 2025
What would Richard Nixon think of President Trump? Knowing I used to work for 37, people sometimes ask me. It’s a vexing question. The 30 years I spent in Nixonland, from part-time undergraduate...
Daily prayer: For peace
Jun 23, 2025
Holy God, we each bear your image, and to you, every life is precious and every death a grief. You forget none whom you have made, and you number us one by one. Teach us to do the same. Lend an...
Visiting St. Nicholas of Myra Church, Encino
Jun 22, 2025
After church today, what did you talk about at coffee hour? I was at St. Nicholas of Myra in Encino. After 37 confirmations, two first communions, and a delicious lunch, a woman told me that she has...
Thoughts on war in Iran
Jun 22, 2025
The never Trumper finds it hard praying Trump gets the political win on Iran. But one must. Trump failing would be a reciprocal attack on United States volunteers serving in the region or civilians...
Daily prayer: Second Sunday after Pentecost
Jun 22, 2025
O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness; through Jesus...
The Pasadena Museum of Art
Jun 21, 2025
Visitors to the Pasadena Museum of History can see, among 100 other works in a centennial exhibition, these views of a Pasadena hillside by Orrin A. White (1883-1969); Santa Clarita’s Vasquez Rocks,...
For leaders of nations
Jun 21, 2025
Almighty God, kindle, we pray, in every heart the true love of peace, and guide with your wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth, that in tranquillity your dominion may increase...
Ordination of Deacon Payton Høegh
Jun 21, 2025
My scrapbook from the ordination and consecration Friday evening of the Rev. Payton Walker Høegh in the Sacred Order of Deacons. By the mysterious working of the calendar, Payton was our only...
Daily prayer: For servant ministers
Jun 21, 2025
Almighty God, you declare your glory and show forth your handiwork in the heavens and in the earth: Deliver us from the service of self alone, that we may do the work you give us to do in truth and...
Daily prayer: For justice, truth and peace
Jun 20, 2025
Almighty God, guide the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth, and establish among them that peace which is the fruit of righteousness, that they may become the kingdom of the Lord...
Juneteenth celebration concert
Jun 19, 2025
Below are my welcoming remarks at “A Juneteenth Sacred Resistance Concert,” sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles' Program Group on Black Ministry, the H. Belfield Hannibal Union of...